Drought threatens millions of children as school dropouts rise along with hunger in southern Africa

It’s Tuesday morning, and 5-year-old Talent should be in school. Instead, he’s foraging for the fruit that his family is counting on for food now that crops have withered in the heat.

Blame the El Nino phenomenon that altered weather worldwide for over a year, or the larger problem of climate change that’s bearing down on the African continent, the region most vulnerable to it. The boy’s grandmother, Winnie Chihota, knows she’s…